Animal House/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** Subverted, however, with John Vernon's character Vernon Wormer, the dean of the college. According to John Landis, his first choice for the role was [[Dragnet|Jack Webb]], who turned it down because he felt that the film was making fun of his straight-laced, law-and-order image. Webb, however, was not averse to poking fun at himself, and he did just that in a famous sketch on ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Most of the cast. For example, Mark Metcalf (Niedermayer) was 32.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] : D-Day is played by veteran character actor Bruce McGill. Flounder is Stephen Furst, later a regular on ''[[St Elsewhere]]'' and ''[[Babylon 5]]''. Tom Hulce (Pinto) would go on to an Academy Award nomination for the title role in ''[[Amadeus]]'', and later voiced and sang the title role in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. Tim Matheson played Otter, and is pretty recognizable now as [[The West Wing|Vice President Hoynes]] and [[Burn Notice|"Dead" Larry Sizemore]]. Also, Mark Metcalf, who played Niedermeyer, did his yelling schtick in the beginning of [[Twisted Sister]]'s famous "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pS3bx4S8A I Wanna Rock]" video, and later, albeit under heavy makeup played <s>Kool-Aid Mouth</s> [[The Master]]. And the same actress who played Mrs. Wormer was also [[The Last Temptation of Christ|the Virgin Mary]].

** And, of course, [[Kevin Bacon]].